He relaxed at that answer and grinned. "Okay. I'll ask her and hope she doesn't try to sneak in a lesson." Then he said, "Liz got a book about learning to read music. She said I could borrow it sometime." Miguel looked shyly at Curnen, "can you read music?"

He'd only seen sheet music one time and that was only a copy of his Papa Hector's music, but at the time he'd thought it was Ernesto's.